Conference program
(tentative outline)
Place of venue: Arken campus, Åbo Akademi University, Fabriksgatan 2 (map)
| Thursday 30 September 2010 |
Friday 1 October 2010 |
| 9:30-10 Welcome addresses |
9:30-11 Keynote 3, Mahmood Mamdani - Human Rights: The African Experience and the Way Forward + coffee |
| 10-12 Keynote 1, Dani Kouyaté - The Evolution of African Cinema + film: Sia |
11-13 Session 3 |
| 12-13 Lunch break |
13-14 Lunch break |
| 13-16 Session 1 |
14-15:30 Session 4 |
| 16-16:30 Coffee break |
15:30-16 Coffee break |
| 16:30-18 Session 2 |
16-17 End panel: Should they stay or should they go? Secessionism and the Legacy of Colonial Partitioning in African and International Politics (panelists: Paul Nugent, Henning Melber, Pierre Englebert) |
| 18-19 Keynote 2, Joyce Nyairo - Making
Space: Alternative Voices and the
Search for Public Virtue in
Contemporary
Kenyan Media |
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| 19-21 Evening reception |
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Program timetable and auditorium listing as a PDF-file [Updated 28 September 2010]
Panels and Papers
Detailed programme for the sessions as a PDF-file [Updated 28 September 2010]
Panel AA: African NGOs for development: roles and North-South connections (chair/coordinator: Tina Kontinen) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel D: Changing conceptions of space in natural resource management (chair: Irmeli Mustalahti; coordinator: Julia Jänis) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel E: Political legality - Rule of law in Africa's democratic transition (chair/coordinator: Jeremy Gould) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel G: Which way research on gender, belonging and culture in African studies in the Nordic countries? Looking at the past and the future (chairs/coordinators: Mai Palmberg & Eva Evers Rosander) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel H: Politics and sex - Queer African Politics (chairs/coordinators: Signe Arnfred & Elina Oinas) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel HH: Gender, space and urbanity (chair: Ann Schlyter) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel I: Somali language in the time of migration: Challenges and opportunities (chair: Marja Tiilikainen) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel J: Language, society and culture in Africa (chairs: Axel Fleisch and Ekkehard Wolf) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel K: African articulation of global change: Reading perceptions of modernity (chair: Maria Olaussen) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel L: Secessionism in Africa (ABORNE-workshop; chair: Paul Nugent and Jordi Tomas; coordinator: Wolfgang Zeller)
Panel M: Changing urban life in post-apartheid South Africa (Chairs/coordinators: Annika Teppo & Tuulikki Pietilä) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel N: Mobility and relocation as strategies of youthful resistance (chairs/coordinators: Morten Bøås and Mats Utas) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel P: Multifaceted connections between the Horn of Africa and its diasporas (chair: Liisa Laakso; coordinator: Päivi Pirkkalainen) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel Q: Social Comments and Critique through Comics and Cartoons (chair/coordinator: Muddle Suzanne Lilius) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel R: Governing African Urban Space (chair/coordinator: Andrew Byerley) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel RR: Livelihoods, housing and urban poverty (chair/coordinator: Laura Stark) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel S: Relationships between 'North' and 'South' within Globalized Contexts (chair: Jónína Einarsdóttir; coordinator: Kristin Loftsdóttir) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel T: Re-regulation of urban water supply organisation: Tracing the geographical and historical trails (chair: Marianne Kjellén; coordinator: Jenny Appelblad) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel U: Global and domestic investment in food and energy production in Sub-Saharan Africa - benefits for whom? (chairs/coordinators: Kjell Havnevik & Atakile Beyene) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel V: The Spatial Turn and Mediated Popular Culture (chairs/coordinators: Hilde Arntsen & Ylva Ekström) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel W: Technology transfer and indigenous knowledge (chair/coordinator: Antti Ainamo) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel X: Trade/Development Nexus and Africa (chair/coordinator: Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu) Abstracts [PDF]
Panel Y: Conflict/post-conflict dynamics in Africa: select case studies (chair/coordinator: Anthoni Van Nieuwkerk) Abstracts [PDF]
